Good Results in Life and EFT
QUESTION: I’m wondering if the good results I’m seeing in my life, since I’ve commenced using EFT, really come from using EFT. I can think of other explanations for them — maybe the method just distracted me from my problems, or maybe all the years of therapy I had for those problems finally paid off, all at once. How can I know?
ANSWER: There’s no way you can know for certain that EFT has brought about any particular change, but this same thing can be said of any effective form of therapy and even of certain medicines. It’s often hard to trace what really causes a given result. That’s why controlled research is so important — that is research in which one group of people are exposed to a condition such as EFT and another group to a completely different treatment or to none at all, and the results compared. By carefully varying the types of treatment that are given in this way, we can begin to see what works and what doesn’t work for specific problems. Some important research has been done, and more is now underway demonstrating that EFT does, in fact, have the effect of greatly reducing many issues, such as anxiety, phobias, depression and PTSD.
Most recently, the Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine published a new study in February, 2019, Clinical EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Improves Multiple Physiological Markers of Health. The researchers concluded that EFT is an evidence-based practice and that its efficacy for anxiety, depression, phobias and PTSD is well-established. The research investigating physiological improvements after EFT intervention is limited; however, their study adds to the body of literature and suggests that EFT is also associated with multidimensional improvements across a spectrum of physiological systems.
Results of a multitude of studies over the decades are statistically significant, so it is questionable that the good results you are seeing in areas of your life could be due to chance, alone. One way that you can gauge your progress with your EFT work is to document what you’re doing with it.
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